Heinz Streib is a senior professor at Universität Bielefeld, Germany, and conducts research in the psychology of religion. He established and directs the Research Center for Biographical Studies in Contemporary Religion. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. His research focuses on biographical-reconstructive and psychometric assessment of religious change and development over the lifespan, deconversion, fundamentalism, xenophobia and the semantics of spirituality.
Ralph W. Hood Jr. is a professor of psychology, LeRoy A. Martin Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and UT Alumni Association Distinguished Professor. He is a past president of the Division 36 of the American Psychological Association and a recipient of its William James award for research in the psychology of religion.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 9
Introduction 11
Chapter 1 Religious Styles and Types: Studying Change and Development in Worldview and Faith 17
Chapter 2 A Common Core? Ideographic and Nomothetic Evidence for Mystical Experience in Relationship to Religious Styles & Types 43
Chapter 3 Identity and Narrative across the Adult Life-Span - Concepts and Methods for the Study of Worldview and Religion in Consecutive Autobiographical Reconstructions 59
Chapter 4 Mixed-Method and Longitudinal. Background and Profile of Our Research Design 85
Chapter 5 The Six Aspects of Faith Development in Longitudinal Analysis 117
Chapter 6 Religious or Spiritual? Text Analysis of the Free Entries in Defining Religiosity and Spirituality 137
Chapter 7 Network Analysis of Case Study Petra S.: A Mixed-Methods Approach 153
Chapter 8 Predicting Deconversion. Concurrent and Cross-Time Correlations in Three Samples 173
Chapter 9 Reconstructing Individual Trajectories across Time: A Short History and a Guide to Understanding the Case Studies 191
Chapter 10 Varieties of Non-Belief in Young Adulthood. A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Nadine and Isabella 205
Chapter 11 "The Personal is always Connected to Society." The Pro-Social Values of a Spiritual Atheist. The Case of Petra 237
Chapter 12 Varieties of Being Protestant in the USA and Germany—The Cases of Gisela and George 275
Chapter 13 "It's the certainty that my faith reflects a reality that I can't see at the moment, but this is where I'm going" - The Impact of an Exclusivist Faith in Old Age. Comparison of Berthold and Heidemarie 311
Chapter 14 Longitudinal Mixed-method Study of Worldviews and Religious Styles in the Adult Lifespan - Current Conclusions and Future Directions 353
APPENDIX A: Sample and Measures in the Three-Wave Longitudinal Data 381
APPENDIX B: The Bielefeld Narrative and Content Coding Scheme (BiNCCS) 389